asking a favor-

ok, so fiona apple's album, which has sold a grand total of 250,000 units is threatening to beat big bad mariah carey in the EW annual poll...pls do a good deed and make sure the latter doesn't win! p.s.- fiona is a HUGE b's fan!

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/poll/0...50_1_0_,00.html

U2, is gonna get album of the year. HTDAAB is a great album, they may get 4 of the 5 nominations they have, its gonna be like ATYCLB back in 2000

In Your Honor--Foo Fighters

My top 10 for 2005:

01. No Use For A Name - Keep Them Confused
02. The Real McKenzies - 10,000 Shots
03. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
04. Lagwagon - Resolve
05. Plain White T's - All That We Needed
06. Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
07. Brian Wilson - What I Really Want For Christmas
08. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
09. Restless Youth - State Of Confusion
10. Sigur Ros - Takk...

The Oasis album

Coldplay could have been the best, but they chose to play it safe and it sounds just like most of their other music. "Oasis" recorded the best album of the year due to it's unique sound! A mixture of both rock, Cuban percussion, and ballads.

so much for the favor!

Quoted from apple_sauce

"Oasis" recorded the best album of the year due to it's unique sound! A mixture of both rock, Cuban percussion, and ballads.

Ballads? What ballads are on the album? I liked it because I didn't think it ahd any. Rock n roll from start to finish (except the AYNIL type closer)

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

(well, it had to be said)

3 that i quite enjoyed:

Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation in the Backyard
Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

My top 10 for 2005:

01. No Use For A Name - Keep Them Confused
02. The Real McKenzies - 10,000 Shots
03. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
04. Lagwagon - Resolve
05. Plain White T's - All That We Needed
06. Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
07. Brian Wilson - What I Really Want For Christmas
08. Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
09. Restless Youth - State Of Confusion
10. Sigur Ros - Takk...

Biscuitpower, I didn't know you liked Sufjan Stevens. Such a great, great album. Best of the year, easily.

I heard some serious stone classics this year, frankly, as I have every year -- this was no more or less a "good year" for music than any other! Ok my top ten:

1. Sufjan Stevens, "Illinoise." If there was a better record released this year, I didn't hear it. Scratch that: there is no possibly universe where a better record could have been released this year. SO. GOOD.

2. The Go! Team, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike." My 2nd fav record this year (even though it came out last year overseas.)

3. Paul McCartney, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard." Because wow, what a buncha songs. Period.

4. Teenage Fanclub, "Man-Made." TFC never make a bad album. And this is choc full of classic Fanclub tunes.

5. My Morning Jacket, "Z." Wow, what a buncha songs. Period.

5. Spoon, "Gimme Fiction." Required many listens, but I've recently struck oil.

6. Architecture in Helsinki, "In Case We Die."

7. Saint Etienne, "Tales From The Turnpike House."

8. Mercury Rev, "Secret Migration."

9. Girls Aloud, "Chemistry." Surprisingly good.

10. Doves, "Some Cities."

Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Behemoth - Demigod
Origin - Echoes of Decimation
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Ulver - Blood Inside
Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase
Autechre - Untilted
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

I think I must own like, two of the "Best Album" nominations that came out this year. Shows how hip I am.

Quoted from MagicAlex

Biscuitpower, I didn't know you liked Sufjan Stevens.

Me neither. I discovered him just a few weeks ago.  

Oh, and I'd like to make one change in my list: "Sing Along" by the Acid House Kings should be in there somewhere in the top half.

And I should add that I got the Sufjan Stevens album just a single day before I had to submit my yearlist to the magazine that I write for and that I included it anyway because I loved it so much right away.

This one gets my vote, although released last year.  

The deluxe edition of Goo by Sonic Youth